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Title: When a book takes over your life
Post by bogarde73 on Mar 7^th, 2014 at 12:32pm

Rebecca Mead is a writer for the New Yorker, who first read George Eliot's Middlemarch as a yearning, ambitious young woman living in a small town in England. Then, the novel spoke to her of the possibilities of living an intellectual life, of escape, of ideas and seriousness. Mead then read the novel again and again, as her own life changed. She read different things into and from the book. Humour. Archness. Relationships. Even how to be a step parent. And in writing a combined personal reflection of the book, and a critical biography of Eliot and how she was received, Mead has written a book that takes the act of reading seriously.

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/03/bps_20140302_1405.mp3

Title: Re: When a book takes over your life
Post by Deathridesahorse on Mar 7^th, 2014 at 1:54pm

"Republican Party Reptile": now THAT'S a book!!

:D

Title: Re: When a book takes over your life
Post by Winston Smith on Mar 18^th, 2014 at 4:24am

The Neverending Story

Title: Re: When a book takes over your life
Post by Jasin on Mar 10^th, 2024 at 2:10am

Well this Board is only 8 pages long.
Little Golden Books is seeking to buy the Moderator out.

Title: Re: When a book takes over your life
Post by AusGeoff on Mar 10^th, 2024 at 4:14am

Still trying to increase your post count by resurrecting
these vintage threads Jasin? How sad.

::)

Title: Re: When a book takes over your life
Post by Jasin on Mar 10^th, 2024 at 8:56am

Hey!!!! Hold on a second! >:(
This is the 3rd Topic I've found where you've posted the exact same thing.
I think you're trying to exploit me for your own gain.
Well you ain't gonna outsmart this dude.
I know you're just trying copywrite me. :P

Title: Re: When a book takes over your life
Post by Jovial Monk on Apr 6^th, 2024 at 12:26pm

AusGeoff wrote on Mar 10^th, 2024 at 4:14am:

Still trying to increase your post count by resurrecting
these vintage threads Jasin? How sad.

::)

How else is she going to get attention?

Title: Re: When a book takes over your life
Post by UnSubRocky on Apr 9^th, 2024 at 8:22am

I read "Red Dragon", "Silence of the Lambs" and "Hannibal" in fairly quick time. I could probably re-read the books soon. But, I want to finish my Game of Thrones series.